- Jul 7, 2007
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So I plugged in a brand new Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145475 ) into my new setup yesterday. Made 2 partitions, chose MBR as I it was already selected and I didn't know much about GPT. Then I ran HDTach and PCWizard HDD benchmark and it said 100% for performance and health just like SpeedFan SMART reader though the Ultra DMA CRC bar was not completely to the right ... it read '8' when I hovered the pointer over it.
Then I copied ~250GB of data onto it and left the pc running over night ... no activity whatsoever going on on this new drive after the copy process. When I took a look at the SMART reading in the morning, I was shocked to see that 2 more bars had moved a lot to the left and the performance/health had already gone down to 91%(less than my 5+ years old IDE and SATA drives that I am still using). Should I go ahead and return this HDD or it's a keeper ?
Then I copied ~250GB of data onto it and left the pc running over night ... no activity whatsoever going on on this new drive after the copy process. When I took a look at the SMART reading in the morning, I was shocked to see that 2 more bars had moved a lot to the left and the performance/health had already gone down to 91%(less than my 5+ years old IDE and SATA drives that I am still using). Should I go ahead and return this HDD or it's a keeper ?